The Bible provides a complete genealogy from Adam to Jesus. You can go through the genealogies and add up the years. You'll get a total that is just over 4,000 years. Add the 2,000 years since the time of Jesus and you get just over 6,000 years since God created everything.

Is there anything wrong with figuring out the age of the earth this way? No. There is nothing to indicate the genealogies are incomplete. There is nothing to indicate God left anything out. There is nothing in the Bible that indicates in any way that the world is older than 6,000 years old.

The Bible does tell us, however, that the fossils we find could not have been buried before God created Adam. The animals whose bones became fossilized had to have died after God created Adam. That means those fossils must be less than 6,000 yers old. Here's why:

How do we get fossils?

The animal has to first die. That's rather obvious. When did death enter the world? Not until Genesis chapter three when Adam and Eve disobey God. So up until that time neither people nor animals died. So, based on the Bible, there could not be any bones to create fossils until after the fall.

Here's another Biblical reason why the fossils we find could not have been buried before God created Adam:

When we examine fossils, in some of them we see evidence of sickness, disease and cancer. There is evidence of violence and of one animal eating another. So there were some problems. Not everything was good.

Yet, at the end of day six of creation: "God saw all that He made and behold. It was very good." (Genesis 1:31 NASB)

God didn't call His creation just good. He called it very good. A world with sickness, disease, cancer and violence is not good. So, the fossilized bones we now find had to have come from animals that died after God created Adam, and after the fall.

I have to reject your arguement since you have yet to prove that there is such a god and that it indeed created teh world as per the genesis account, and indeed you would have to also explain why all available evidence is as we would expect it to be if there were in fact no intelligent agency behind it at all.

Is there anything wrong with figuring out the age of the earth this way? No. There is nothing to indicate the genealogies are incomplete. There is nothing to indicate God left anything out. There is nothing in the Bible that indicates in any way that the world is older than 6,000 years old.

Because we know that the earth is older than the bible states => The bible is complete and utter bullshit. There you have it. QED

This is why when we do science, we start with looking at the evidence and come to a conclusion. When you do hokey religiobabble you start with a conclusion and ignore any evidence to the contrary. Until you understand why the differences between those two approaches are vitally, nay fundamentally important, there is no hope for you or your Mission.

Of course, if the Bible is wrong, then none of your post is valid. Thus, you cannot and will not convince anyone, because your argument is completely invalid and unsound, and absolutely dependent on circular reasoning and rejection of science to function.

Also, fuck you, missionaries. You are responsible for all or nearly all of the current problems in Third World countries. After decolonization, Africa was actually doing okay for itself, and developing its economy and all that. Then, the missionaries came. Twenty years later, and AIDS ravages the place while the population is almost universally fundie, making them too stupid to solve their problems by themselves, and driving the already-pitiful education standards of those lands down into the ground. Uganda and Somalia are the Most Triumphant Examples of this lawlessness. There is a reason why every Third World country except the ones in Africa are improving themselves. Care to guess what it is?

We, the citizens of the United States, will not allow you Dominionists to transform us into a Third-World country. Go back to the Dark Ages whence you came, stupidity-worshipper.

Of course, if the Bible is wrong, then none of your post is valid. Thus, you cannot and will not convince anyone, because your argument is completely invalid and unsound, and absolutely dependent on circular reasoning, false premises, and rejection of science to function.

Also, fuck you, missionaries. You are responsible for all or nearly all of the current problems in Third World countries. After decolonization, Africa was actually doing okay for itself, and developing its economy and all that. Then, the missionaries came. Thirty years later, and AIDS ravages the place while the population is almost universally fundie, making them too stupid to solve their problems by themselves, and driving the already-pitiful education standards of those lands down into the ground. Uganda and Somalia are the Most Triumphant Examples of this lawlessness. There is a reason why every Third World country except the ones in Africa are improving themselves. Care to guess what it is?

We, the citizens of the United States, will not allow you Dominionists to transform us into a Third-World country. Go back to the Dark Ages whence you came, stupidity-worshipper.